misdemeanor
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6051 | Claude Coleman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c… |
| 25-5518 | Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c… |
| 24-6083 | Joshua Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment | Whether Article III and the Sixth Amendment guarantee a jury trial for petty misdemeanors |
| 24-310 | Sean Michael McGuire v. Texas | Texas | 2024-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | exigent-circumstances felony-arrest fourth-amendment misdemeanor probable-cause warrantless-arrest | Does the Fourth Amendment permit a police officer to make a warrantless arrest for a felony not committed in his presence where probable cause only ex… |
| 24-75 | Nicholas Yarofalchuw v. John Cabrera, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment curtilage curtilage-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment misdemeanor misdemeanor-seizure reasonable-officer-standard santana-precedent search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest | Is a warrantless arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, by physical force, for a misdemeanor, in the entrance to the curtilage of the suspec… |
| 23-1285 | Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity | Was the entry into the home to arrest the misdemeanant clearly established as unconstitutional? |
| 23-1131 | Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity | Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process |
| 22-6608 | Arthur Torlucci v. California | California | 2023-01-23 | Denied | IFP | due-process imprisonment indigent-defendants misdemeanor right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the government to provide counsel to indigent defendants in misdemeanor cases wher… |
| 21-543 | Mark Anthony Spell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process misdemeanor sixth-amendment speeding-ticket statute-of-limitations | Does the Sixth Amendment permit the prosecution of a misdemeanor speeding ticket after the lapse of more than twenty years if there is no evidence the… |
| 20-8106 | Roy Taylor v. Cynthia Brann, Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections | New York | 2021-05-21 | Denied | IFP | bail-modification bail-reform constitutional-procedure court-discretion criminal-procedure discretion due-process excessive-bail misdemeanor misdemeanor-charges | Whether the New York state courts erred in not addressing the merits of the petitioner's claims regarding excessive bail |
| 20-5392 | Jermaine Tyrone Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | completed-misdemeanor criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Is reasonable suspicion of a completed misdemeanor sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to justify an investigatory stop of a vehicle when there is n… |
| 20-5254 | Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-08-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor | Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop… |
| 20-18 | Arthur Gregory Lange v. California | California | 2020-07-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan… |
| 19-7413 | Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation | Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process? |
| 18-1554 | Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor |
| 18-9661 | William Kostopoulos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's general denial to state law enforcement officers that he committed a misdemeanor offense is sufficient to meet the federal nexus… |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe… |
| 18-814 | Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Amici (4) | bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention | Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail… |
| 18-218 | Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure | Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of willful' failure to investigate even when the officer has established at l… |